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...life was as extreme as the experimental fiction he pioneered, involving alcohol, heroin, homosexuality, a celebrated obscenity trial in Boston and, in 1951, his accidental killing of his wife while shooting a glass off the top of her head. In his last years, he became a recurring pop icon, with cameos in movies and even a Nike...
Beat Generation novelist and icon William S. Burroughs '36 died Saturday in Lawrence, Kansas of a heart attack...
While it may not seem very difficult to take a foursquare American icon like Elvis and make money off of him, in fact the reverse has been true, and therein lies an illuminating tale. Unlike the story of Elvis' rise from poverty to fame and bloat, which will certainly be told and told again in the coming weeks, the story of what happened after his death is both more unfamiliar and nearly as compelling, at least from a fiduciary point of view. Its unlikely heroine turns out to be none other than Elvis' "child bride," Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, who divorced...
Last week, when Woolworth announced it was closing its 400 remaining F.W. Woolworth stores and laying off 9,200 people to focus on selling shoes and accessories, it seemed that another American icon was being swept aside by the cruel winds of change. Yet Woolworth suffered not from forces beyond its control so much as from generations of five-and-dime management of the 118-year-old chain. In the '60s the company was late in following its customers to malls, and its attempt at a discount chain, Woolco, lasted just 20 years. Similarly, in the early '90s, Woolworth homed...
...career that was launched in scandal when she appeared as the tender (and fully exposed) model in the photographs of her lover and later husband Alfred Stieglitz. She advanced that early fame on the sheer power of her painting, her personality and, increasingly, her role as an icon of feminist strength. With the inauguration of the new building, O'Keeffe joins a small number of disparate American artists with memorial museums: Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell and Frederic Remington among them. In fact, she is the only American woman artist of great fame to be so honored...